ok right there is what I am talking about. Most people think the French quarter. What about uptown? Uptown did amazing well. Then also again because everyone assumes NOla is everything what about st bernard, what about palcqumines parish what terrebone, what about the cities north of the lake?
Ahh...if these places did not flood, then more power to them. I am not without experience in LA, my Mother grew up in South Louisana, and I spent many happy hour in NO. I can understand that losing parts of it, not just the FQ is painful.
It's just time to face facts, cut the losses and move on. NO will never be the same, you cannot change that fact. It's time for common sense to take over this thing and see the future. The future is that what is prone to flood will flood at some point. If you build dams, dikes, canal walls, channel walls, etc. to keep the water out, sooner or later it gets in, water will seek it's own level.
Let what should be swamps and wetlands revert to that.